How long should texts be?

Don’t send someone a giant block of text. It’s hard to read, and it ceases to be conversational. They don’t want to read your novel.

My suggestion is this: think of it like Twitter. You get 140 character to make your point. You can send a maximum of three before getting a response.

Conversations are a back and forth, if it doesn’t feel balanced, it probably isn’t.

And if you need to send a long text once in a while that’s fine, but use paragraph breaks to make it easier to read.

See how easy this was to read?

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Texts should function like conversations.Don’t send someone a giant block of text. It’s hard to read, and it ceases to be conversational. They don’t want to read your novel. My suggestion is this: think of it like Twitter. You get 140 character to make your point. You can send a maximum of three before getting a response. Conversations are a back and forth, if it doesn’t feel balanced, it probably isn’t. And if you need to send a long text once in a while that’s fine, but use paragraph breaks to make it easier to read. See how easy this was to read?